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ConsentStack vs Termly

Similar price, different product. Compare banner control, regulation coverage, ad integrations, and developer experience side by side.

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Snapshot

Regulations
195+vs~80
Ad integrations
6 platformsvs2 platforms
Banner text
Fully editablevsAuto-generated
Customization
Full controlvsLimited options

ConsentStack is a modern alternative to Termly for website consent management. Similar price, different product.

Pricing

ConsentStack Pro and Termly Pro+ are each product's full-feature tier. Here's what $9/month buys you.

ConsentStack Pro
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$29/mo
  • 30,000 MAU
  • 6 native ad integrations
  • Customize every detail
  • Full analytics dashboard
  • 7 languages
  • 195+ regulations
  • Custom CSS/JS
  • Headless mode + full API
Termly Pro+
$20/mo
  • Unlimited banner views
  • 2 integrations (Google, Microsoft)
  • Limited customization options
  • No headless mode
  • Consent rate reporting (added March 2026)
  • Multi-language supported
  • ~80 regions

$9/month. 3x the integrations. 2.5x the coverage

For $9 more per month, ConsentStack Pro adds 4 native ad platform integrations (Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn), full banner text editing, headless mode, custom CSS/JS injection, a complete analytics dashboard, and coverage for 195+ regulations instead of ~80 regions. Termly's Starter tier at $14/mo still lacks consent logs, custom styles, multi-language, and branding removal. The effective minimum for a real Termly is Pro+ at $20/mo.

Your banner never goes dark

Termly's free tier deactivates your consent banner entirely when you exceed 10,000 monthly banner views. Your site runs without consent management until the next month. ConsentStack's paid tiers never deactivate the banner. If you exceed the MAU cap on Pro, your banner keeps running and you auto-upgrade on the next billing cycle. Termly Pro+ offers unlimited banner views, which is a genuine advantage on paper — but banner views aren't unique visitors. One visitor can generate many banner views.

Every tier is public

ConsentStack pricing is public through Business at $79/mo. No “contact us” gates. No sales calls to unlock the next tier. Termly's tier after Pro+ is Agency with custom pricing.

Source for Termly prices: termly.io/pricing. Termly Agency tier requires custom pricing via sales engagement.

Control

Live in minutes, compliant everywhere

Add one script tag, enable Global Compliance Mode — a single toggle — and 195+ regulations apply automatically. ConsentStack detects each visitor's location and applies the right consent model — opt-in for Europe, opt-out for California, notice-only where that's all that's required. All 20 US state privacy laws resolve per-state with no per-region configuration. One toggle. Every jurisdiction.

Termly requires you to select which regions you serve in their dashboard, then maps those to consent models. Their coverage tops out around 46 documented regulations. If you need compliance in APAC, MENA, or Sub-Saharan Africa, the coverage is thin and the configuration is on you. Browse all 195+ regulations →

Full customization when you need it

Most teams use the visual builder and never touch code. But when you need more, everything is open: custom CSS, JavaScript injection, headless mode, and a full API. Termly auto-generates your banner text and doesn't let you change it. Their help center confirms: “Termly does not allow full customization of the cookie banner text.” CSS overrides are discouraged because their classes change without notice.

Your banner, your words

Per-consent-model content overrides mean GDPR visitors see different messaging than CCPA visitors. 12 color tokens, 5 banner layouts, 4 preferences center layouts, and custom CSS/JS injection for pixel-perfect control.

“Free version is unusable for any privacy regulations. No options to edit the banner text.”

Termly user — Trustpilot reviewer

Build your own consent experience

ConsentStack's developer API lets you trigger the banner, update consent, open preferences, and listen for changes from your own code. Termly's API is read-only — you can check the current state, but you can't control anything. No headless mode. No way to build a custom consent experience. The widget is the product.

Termly's auto-blocker can also break legitimate site features like chat widgets and site search because it can't always tell the difference between a tracker and a tool your visitors need. ConsentStack checks against a database of 5,800+ known trackers and lets you override any decision.

“The autoblocker blocks some of our most popular apps including chat, site search, reviews.”

Termly user — Capterra reviewer, Digital Marketing Manager

Integrations & Performance

ConsentStack tells 6 ad platforms about your visitors' consent choices: Google, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. Termly connects to 2: Google and Microsoft. If you run ads on Meta, TikTok, or Pinterest alongside Termly, those platforms never know whether a visitor consented. Your ad reporting suffers and you lose insight into what's working.

Performance

ConsentStack ships as a single 23KB file with no extra downloads. Your banner appears in under 50 milliseconds. No published bundle size from Termly. Absent from independent CMP performance benchmarks.

Termly's WordPress plugin is a known performance problem. When asked about PageSpeed degradation, Termly's own support recommended bypassing the plugin and manually installing the embed script instead.

“While we have this plugin activated, we got the scoring between 37–43. But once we deactivate the plugin, we are getting the score between 70–74.”

Termly user — WordPress reviewer

Users also report Termly's banner text being indexed by Google as their page's meta description, replacing actual SEO copy in search results.

“Cannot stand Termly anymore. It ended up messing up all my SEO description, Google taking their banner text as description. Tried all solutions from Dev side. No one works.”

Termly user — WordPress reviewer, March 2026

$9/month more. A different product entirely.

Full banner control, 195+ regulations, 6 ad integrations, and a 23KB SDK. No auto-generated text, no read-only API.

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When to Choose Termly

ConsentStack is focused on doing website consent management exceptionally well. Some capabilities are still on our roadmap, and Termly has strengths worth acknowledging.

IAB TCF v2.2 and GPP

ConsentStack does not yet support TCF or GPP. If your use case requires TCF compliance for EU programmatic advertising, Termly supports this on Pro+. It's a real gap.

WordPress One-Click Install

Termly has 90,000+ active WordPress installations and a one-click plugin. ConsentStack works on WordPress via a script tag, but there's no dedicated plugin. If installing from the WordPress plugin directory is non-negotiable, Termly is established there. (The plugin has documented performance issues — see above.)

Free Tier for Tiny Sites

Termly's free tier covers 10,000 banner views/month. ConsentStack's free tier covers 1,000 monthly unique visitors. For a personal blog or hobby project where every dollar counts, Termly's free ceiling is higher.

Termly also generates privacy policies, terms of service, and other legal documents from templates. We chose not to build this. Auto-generated legal documents can't reflect your actual data practices, and template accuracy has been questioned — a Termly template once listed Privacy Shield as valid for international data transfers, years after a court invalidated it. If you think we should add a policy generator, let us know.

Termly has been around since 2017 and serves 2 million businesses. For the use cases above, it's a reasonable choice. For everything else on this page, ConsentStack delivers more for less.

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